Weight Loss Program

As a consequence of modern living & a fast food culture, obesity has become a common problem. The lifestyle that most people lead in today's times makes it very easy to put on weight & paradoxically, also stay malnourished! Outdoor sports, meeting friends, extra-curricular activities have now been replaced with TV, X-box, Play stations and social networking, making our lifestyle more sedentary, stressful, un-natural & inactive! Today, most people know more about their PC, than they know about the body that they live in! No wonder there is alarming growth rate of obese cases & diseases associated with obesity & an unhealthy lifestyle! No wonder there are ample of weight loss drugs, weight loss devices, weight loss diets & weight loss centers all around. Being overweight or obese also increases the chances of developing several unwanted complications like heart disease, diabetes, cancer, arthritis etc.
To put it in the simplest terms, when there is an excess of fat consumption than required by the body, this excess fat gets deposited as layers below our skin. In an obese person, the fat deposits are way beyond what the body can handle.
The chart given below will help you assess if you require to lose weight. You are considered overweight when your body weight 10-20% in excess of your Ideal Body Weight. If your weight exceeds 30% of your ideal weight, then you are suffering from obesity

Height
(feet and meters)

Ideal weight f
ormen (kilos)

Ideal weight for
women (kilos)

Overweight if in the
range for men

Overweight if In the
range for women

5' 0" (1.523 m)

51 – 54

51 - 54

54 - 59.4

54 - 59.4

5' 1" (1.548 m)

52 – 55

52 – 55

55 - 60.5

55 - 60.5

5' 2" (1.574 m)

56 – 60

53 – 57

60 - 66

57 - 62.7

5' 3" (1.599 m)

58 – 62

54 – 58

62 - 68.2

58 - 63.8

5' 4" (1.624 m)

59 – 63

56 – 60

63 - 69.3

60 - 66

5' 5" (1.650 m)

61 – 65

58 – 61

65 - 71.5

61 - 67.1

5' 6" (1.675 m)

62 – 67

59 – 62

67 - 73.7

62 - 68.2

5' 7" (1.700 m)

64 – 68

61 – 65

68 - 74.8

65 - 71.5

5' 8" (1.726 m)

66 – 71

62 – 67

71 - 78.1

67 - 73.7

5' 9" (1.751 m)

68 – 72

64 – 68

72 - 79.2

68 - 74.8

5' 10" (1.777 m)

69 – 75

66 – 70

74 - 82.5

70 - 77

5' 11" (1.802 m)

71 – 76

67 – 72

76 -83.6

72 - 79.2

6' 0" (1.827 m)

73 – 79

68 – 74

79 - 86.9

74 - 81.4

6' 1" (1.853 m)

73 – 81

73 – 81

81 - 89.1

81 - 89.1

6' 2" (1.878 m)

77 – 84

78 – 83

84 - 92.4

83- 91.3

6' 3" (1.904 m)

80 – 86

80 – 85

86 - 94.6

85 - 93.5

This is an approximate measure, because some people, especially the ones who do regular exercise & are otherwise fit, may weigh more due to more of lean body mass. Other way of checking the same is BMI ( Body Mass Index). Which is your body weight divided by the square of your height in meters. E.g if your height is 5’4” & you weigh 56 kgs then your BMI will be:-
56kgs /1.62 * 1.62 = 21.37
The normal range of BMI is as follows-
For Men- between 18.7 – 23.8
For Women- between 20- 25
In an overweight person the BMI will be higher than normal. In case of an obese person BMI would be over 30.